I want to say more about this even if perhaps I shouldn’t. Black Americans are amongst the most astute political and social observers of American power because our survival has and still depends on it.
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I have studied power my entire life from within institutions where I wielded none. I have written about it. I have reported on it. I have read about it. I have observed it. And, over the years, I have worked myself to accrue it, which is really what angers so many people.
And so when the BoT and a rich donor decided to wield their inherited and unearned power against me, I knew that while I did not have $25 million of inherited wealth, that I have learned a great deal about how to get it.
And so I set to work to show that not only those born into wealth can bring substantial resources to institutions. That these institutions should stop acting as if we are lucky to be there and need to realize that they are lucky we chose them.
Power can be used in service of self or in service of community. We all have to be responsible for which we choose.
Now, because of those actions, @HowardU will be at the center of a new initiative to train thousands of Black journalists to use those astute observations to expose the ways that power is wielded against the vulnerable and hold those who wield it responsible.
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